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USSF, USWNT finalize collective bargaining agreement

Jeff Kassouf March 20, 2013 19

US Soccer and the USWNT have finalized a CBA through 2016. (Photo Copyright Steve Bruno for www.equalizersoccer.com)

US Soccer and the United States women’s national team have finalized a collective bargaining agreement through 2016, the US Soccer Federation and players’ association jointly announced on Wednesday.

As first reported by The Equalizer, the deal was finalized late Tuesday. Players’ association lawyer John Langel told The Equalizer on Tuesday that national team players would not report to training camps with their National Women’s Soccer League teams until a deal was finalized.

The deal new deal will carry the federation and its women’s national team through the 2015 World Cup in Canada and the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

US Soccer and the US Women’s National Soccer Team Players’ Association issued the following joint statement:

“We are pleased to have concluded this agreement in a timely manner. It took a little longer than we had hoped given the complexity of the issues involved but we are happy it is now behind us. This agreement will allow the players to focus on keeping the U.S. Women’s National Team at the top of the sport and ensure the NWSL is successful for its launch in April.”

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  • Kat

    Any details on the terms? Hoping they got a raise indicative of their surge in popularity.

  • http://twitter.com/kernel_thai Mr Rick

    Kind of surprised at the length; The last deal was longer.

  • luke

    congrats!

    let NWSL madness begin! :) )

  • PMT

    Kessler has a cut on her leg that required stitches. Nothing that’s long term, at least no article I could find stating long term injury. Why, oh why would anyone retaliate by intentionally trying to end Averbuch’s career over an unintentional injury? The German national team has more class than that and respect the game more than that. Do you believe otherwise?

    • sol1711

      with the injury by nadine kessler the vfl wolfsburg weakened against rossyanka.
      we can not forget.
      ultras vfl wolfsburg

      • Steglitz49

        Mein lieber Sol! Mein deutsch ist nicht so gut aber Ich werde versuchen in deinem Sprache. Alles verstehen Ihrer position, das die injury zum Kessler hat dem Volfsburger gefehlet. Aber. Sie können Ihrer Oppinion ein bisschen diplomatischer markiren, nicht wahr?

        Please help us who read The Equalizer by providing reports from Germany and any other part that you follow. Ich bin ganz sicher das viele Leute wurde gerne information zür Amerikanischer, Kanadiensicher und Méxikanishcer Fräulein den im Europa spielen receiven werden können machen, bitte!

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  • http://twitter.com/JeffKassouf Jeff Kassouf

    I’m pretty hands-off about comments here, but when you start suggesting that a player’s leg should be broken, you’ve crossed the line. Take that garbage somewhere else. Your comment will disappear shortly.

    • Don B.

      Thank you, Jeff.

    • sol1711

      there were comments from americans that you should destroy this german player inside.

      there are also rumors, that yael averbuch has committed the foul on nadine kessler in the order of the russian club rossyanka.

      and she got a lot of money for it.
      but that is not nice.

      • Don B.

        Once again, you come here with unfounded conspiracy allegations, none of which you can prove. You expect us to believe it just because you say so.

        Not only that, but you call for career ending injury to a player of the USWNT, a talented, hard working player we all love and respect – a player who inadvertently injured another player, a minor injury requiring only five stitches. You are despicable and a prime example of what happens when immorality and immaturity come together. I can only speak for myself, but your comments and your attitude aren’t welcome here. Go find another forum with others of your kind to spew your hatred.

        • sol1711

          yes, talented player, nadine kessler, is injured by yael averbuch.
          and please, not zensur.

    • Don B.

      So much for removing that comment, huh?

      • http://twitter.com/JeffKassouf Jeff Kassouf

        Disqus, our comment provider, has taken three days to respond to why it hasn’t removed after being deleted from our end.

  • Wear Nikes Drink Gatorade

    Under this new agreement, will future “victory tours” be even longer?

  • CoachRich

    Jeff, do the Canadian and Mexican players have CBA’s or appropriate contracts with their national associations?

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  • Greg_G

    sol1711 – your comments on this site have always bordered on the very questionable, but now you are starting to cross the line into the very distasteful. If your seemingly irrational dislike for USSoccer and American players cannot be reined in enough that you can at least make comments without calling for players to be injured intentionally I suggest you stop commenting on this site immediately. Your posts have added very little, if anything, of value.

  • sol1711

    zensur, zensur, zensur patriot act is working